Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TRADING-STAMP COMPANIES won vital battle against anti-stamp merchants, who charged that stamps jack up prices, squeeze out non-stamp stores. FTC ruled that stamps do not create "unfair competition or deceptive practices," but promised to act against any company that uses stamps for "deception of customers, price discrimination...
Fire Down Below. Lust, betrayal and revenge in the Caribbean-all slanted by Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw's eye for irony; with Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
COVERING the news in Little Rock last week was an experience that TIME'S correspondents will not soon forget. Three TIME reporters-Dallas Bureau Chief Bill Rappeleye, Chicago Correspondents Burt Meyers and Jack Olsen-were marked men, thanks to Governor Orval Faubus, who blamed TIME for many of his self-made troubles in a radio-TV broadcast the week before. Reported Burt Meyers: "We found frequent references being made to TIME, few, if any, complimentary -and some were downright bloodthirsty. But we kept our mouths shut, dodged any questions about our connections and kept out of trouble." Even...
Fire Down Below. Lust, betrayal and revenge in the Caribbean-all slanted by Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw's eye for irony; with Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
Assessing the political aftermath of Little Rock, Democrats last week saw small humor in Chicago Daily News Columnist Jack Mabley's new word definition. Federal bayonets in Arkansas might have cut away from the Republicans those Eisenhower Democrats who last year helped Ike win Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Tennessee-and might have skewered hopes of a Republican Southern wing. But the Democratic Party was in far worse shape. The Little Rock crisis crumbled the shaky foundation of compromise which had underlain Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign and the Democratic record in the first session of the 85th Congress...